Abstract
A taxonomic revision is given for the stenogastrine genus Eustenogaster van der Vecht, 1969, which is distributed from India to Southeast Asia and southern China. A total of 15 species, including three new species (E. fumipennis Saito, sp. nov., E. latebricola Saito, sp. nov. and E. spinicauda Saito, sp. nov.), are recognized in the genus. A key to species, descriptions of the new species, and notes on taxonomic status, morphological characters and distribution records of the previously described taxa are given.References
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